Category Archives: Commentary

Commentaries on anything and everything. Could be about politics, technology, an specific industry, or just my general thoughts on a particular subject. Anything that could spark debate where people can learn and share opinions

Mahalo & Human Power Search

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Michael Koby

The idea that a search company could beat Google, is ludicrous at best. Google practically owns search. That does not mean they return the best results, however. In fact, sometimes you have to search two or three times to get the desired results. It has taken many a search for me to get to where I am in regards to search ability. But what if I could type in the exact thing I wanted and get a page of results dedicated to just that subject? That’s what Mahalo tries to do. Continue reading →

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How Much? 140 Characters Worth

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yesterday, I listened to the latest episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech), episode 134 to be exact. In this episode, the question was asked, is there value in these 140 character message conversations being had on the likes of Twitter, Jaiku, & Pownce? One would think that 140 characters is not a lot of space to say anything in but if you really sit and think about it, you do it everytime you send a text message. Can you same something worth while in a text message? Most of you will answer “Yes” to that question. So it stands to reason that valuable conversations can be had in short, 140 character messages. Continue reading →

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Why I Blog

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Michael Koby

Darren Rowse, of ProBlogger has put a survey up on his website today asking “Why Do You Blog?” and while I answered “For Business” it made me think about why I blog. I think that if you are going to … Continue reading →

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New Zunes

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Michael Koby

Last week, Microsoft announced the latest generation of their Zune media players. While the devices themselves are nothing to quickly write home about, one thing definitely was. One fact stood out above all the rest in the announcement of the new Zunes, and that was the fact that the original 30GB Zunes will get a software update that gives them all the new features of the newest generation. So the original Zunes will have podcasting support, as well as support for the updated video codecs. Continue reading →

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DRM Free Revolution

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Michael Koby

Last week, Amazon opened its MP3 Download Store. With over two million tracks averaging out at 89 cents a track, it is an impressive entry into the market of music downloads. Totally ripping Apple a new one, Amazon has unveiled what could really be a successful product, if they do it right. Continue reading →

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Ethics of Spying

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Michael Koby

So what do you do when someone close to you has been lying to you for months on end? You know from the way they are acting that they are hiding more. And you know that there is stuff to find out if only you are willing to take the appropriate steps. How far should you go and what is considered crossing the line. Continue reading →

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